STATUE OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA, A "PILGRIM" T0 ROME

VATICAN CITY, SEP 29, 2000 (VIS) - The statue of Our Lady of Fatima will be in the Vatican for three days during the October 6 to 8 Jubilee of Bishops. On Sunday, October 8, at the concluding Mass, there will be the Act of Entrustment to Mary, "almost a coronation of the Great Jubilee," according to a communique from the Central Committee of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000.
The statue will arrive at Rome's Ciampino Airport on Friday, October 6 and be brought to the Holy Father's private chapel in the papal apartments. On Saturday, the 7th, memory of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary, the statue will be transferred in a procession to St. Peter's Basilica to be venerated by the faithful. In the afternoon it will be brought to St. Peter's Square where Pope John Paul, together with the bishops who are celebrating their Jubilee, will pray the rosary. That same evening the statue will be brought to the Vatican's "Ecclesia Mater" monastery of cloistered nuns.

On Sunday, October 8, the Holy Father will celebrate Mass in St. Peter's Square, during which the Act of Entrustment to Mary will be read, thus placing the Church and the world under Mary's protection at the start of the new millennium. Afterwards the statue will be returned to the Pope's private chapel.

On Monday morning, Cardinal Angelo Sodano will preside at a farewell ceremony in the San Damaso courtyard. The statue will return to the shrine in Fatima, Portugal, that same day.

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